The Dead has been available in Region 2 for a while now. Cousin, Cousin and Madame Sousatzka are also available in Region 2.

A Dry White Season is a cut-out in Region 1 but can still be found.

I Never Sang for My Father was supposed to be released as part of Columbia's low cost martini line but seems to have been dropped. It is, however, playing sometime today on TCM as part of their Gene Hackman tribute.

“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.” - Voltaire

--rain Bard wrote:Le Jour se Leve is available on Region 1, but only on the extremely expensive Janus "Essential Art House" box set. I suppose it's only a matter of time before it becomes an official Criterion release.

Yes, but I want it right now. Or tomorrow. I'm not good with the patient thing.

I actually don't have a region free player. The number of movies I "need" to own but don't is so great that narrowing my ability to buy those films, via region coding, is actually helpful.

Universal owns the rights. Unless they sell the rights to Criterion or some other distributor who'll front the money for a major restoration, we are not likely to see its release. Universal is cheap as dirt.

Universal also owns the rights to Sirk's films, including The Tarnished Angels, A Time to Love and a Time to Die, All I Desire, There's Always Tomorrow and Interlude, all of which have been released in Region 2, though they seem to have no interest in releasing them in Region 1. Magnificent Obsession is only now being released here, and that through Criterion who previously released All That Heaven Allows and Written on the Wind. The only Sirk title Universal has ever released itself is Imitation of Life.

In the meantime Universal continues to re-release the same classic films over and over: Holiday Inn, Rear Window, Vertigo, Touch of Evil, Psycho, To Kill a Mockingbird and the aforementioned Imitation of Life, now in its third incarnation.

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“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.” - Voltaire

Damien wrote:Big, your choices are much more intersting than Movie Mike's. To be honest, however, I don't get worked up much about what is or is not on DVD because I don't buy many, and many of the films you mmmentioned do show up on TCM, from which I've recorded most of the titles you mentioned. (Would love The Blue Veil, however.)

What I'm mostly interested in are now-obscure international films (movies that won prizes at Cannes or Venice et al in the 40s and 50s but are completely unknown to us now).

I also dream of the DVDs of two great 1970s TV series, Harry O and Sirota's Court, although I have not even taken off the shrink wrap of the box sets of Hogan's Heroes, Green Acres and To The Manor Born all of which I'd asked for as Christmas presents in the past and have now have had for several years.

Yeah, but the quality is much better on professional DVDs.

I actually have all the films I mentioned in various versions - most of them recorded off TCM.

“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.” - Voltaire

Insignificant is available on region 2 & 4 but both transfers are full screen and of average quality.

I have read somewhere that Insignificant will be coming to Criterion DVD. It's part of some deal that Criterion did with the producer Jeremy Thomas. I have also read (though a long time ago now) that some silent von Sternbergs are to be released by Criterion, including The Docks of New York. I hope this turns out to be true.

“Those Koreans. They’re so suspicious, you know, ever since Hiroshima.” Constance Langdon (Jessica Lange) from American Horror Story: Season One

Big, your choices are much more intersting than Movie Mike's. To be honest, however, I don't get worked up much about what is or is not on DVD because I don't buy many, and many of the films you mmmentioned do show up on TCM, from which I've recorded most of the titles you mentioned. (Would love The Blue Veil, however.)

What I'm mostly interested in are now-obscure international films (movies that won prizes at Cannes or Venice et al in the 40s and 50s but are completely unknown to us now).

I also dream of the DVDs of two great 1970s TV series, Harry O and Sirota's Court, although I have not even taken off the shrink wrap of the box sets of Hogan's Heroes, Green Acres and To The Manor Born all of which I'd asked for as Christmas presents in the past and have now have had for several years.

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"Y'know, that's one of the things I like about Mitt Romney. He's been consistent since he changed his mind." -- Christine O'Donnell

Great call on Resurrection. And The Dead. Seriously, why this great great movie doesn't have a DVD release is beyond me. Joyce's short story is one of the greatest things written in the English language and the movie is one of the greatest of the last three decades.

My DVD wishlist? Docks of New York would rank high. Anything by Jacques Rivette. Bigger than Life by Ray. Insignificance by Roeg. Le Jour se Leve and Life of Oharu

Coincidentally my year-end DVD report and Mike Clark's current DVD column in USA Today are devoted to our wishes for films not on DVD in the U.S. Although I have to agree with all his choices, we converged on only one title. Yep, it's Make Way for Tomorrow.